old salt wrote:Now that luster of the Bush family name has been restored & rebranded, will Jeb become a viable candidate again & re-enter the fray ? I hope so.
You were complaining in another thread that some of us had no idea why Trump was elected, and yet you say stuff like this. The populists voting for Trump and Bernie are vehemently against legacy names and "politician families" like Clinton and Bush. Drain the Swamp ring a bell? Who is more swampy than the Bush's - you've got four generations serving in government from a very rich family. At least with the Clintons it was just a husband-wife pair. This was one of the reasons I wasn't a fan of Jeb or Hillary, continuity breeds corruption and complacency among other issues.
We had a Bush or Clinton in the White house for almost all of the years from 1981-2013, and in federal government from the mid '40's onward. There are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Americans as qualified to run the country as any Bush or Clinton who haven't been president.
You may hope Jeb is a viable candidate again, and he may be a worthy candidate (I'd take him over Trump any day), but he has a lot of work ahead of him to prove himself more worthy than a number of other Republican candidates he ran against and may run against again. More importantly, he is as exciting as a cold wet noodle to Trump supporters who have taken over the Republican party.
Taking the Republican party back to normalcy is maybe one of the more patriotic things you could help with in today's America, as milquetoast as a candidate as Jeb may be. Just beware you're running up against the very people you continuously remind us that we don't understand and underestimate.